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. 2020 Jun;10(1):010317.
doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.010317.

Building an interdisciplinary pain medicine and palliative care program in Ethiopia

Salahadin Abdi  1 , Ethan Dmitrovsky  2
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Building an interdisciplinary pain medicine and palliative care program in Ethiopia

Salahadin Abdi et al. J Glob Health. 2020 Jun.
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Competing interests: The authors completed the ICMJE Unified Competing Interest form (available upon request from the corresponding author), and declare no conflicts of interest.

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Photo: Some of the Ethiopian physician participants in the pain management education program. The data shown represents causes of death in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the most recently recorded timeframe (Prev Chronic Dis, 2019, 9:E84), revealing the high incidence of noncommunicable diseases (such as cancer) in the region (from the collection of Joseph Meyer, used with permission). The physicians shown above have permitted the use of their likenesses in this publication.
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